Augmented wound dressing systems and methods for using same and systems, devices, and methods for monitoring the healing process of wounds
OwnerGregory O'KEEFFEinventor
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Abstract
Augmented wound dressing systems may include traditional wound dressing components and one or more sensor devices such as accelerometers, humidity monitors, temperature monitors, electrocardiography leads, and/or oximetry sensors. Measurements from the sensor devices may be used to monitor one or more aspects of patient and/or wound health. In addition, or alternatively, one or more images of a wound that may be taken over time may be analyzed and/or compared with one another to determine one or more characteristics of the wound in order to, for example, assess wound health/healing and determine whether an intervention is necessary to assist with wound healing.
Claims21
A wound dressing comprising:
- a wound dressing pad configured to cover a patient's wound;
- and
- a monitor configured to measure an aspect of the patient's health.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor, identifying information for a wound on a patient;
- receiving, by the processor, an image of the wound, the image being associated with color balancing information;
- determining, by the processor, a characteristic of the wound using the image and the coloring balancing information;
- and
- communicating, by the processor, the characteristic to a display device for display to a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.